No doubt you've experienced once that screen of blue death where it says checking a disc. It takes forever to end. Well I get this problem EVERY day I start my computer and I can't cancel it because NO MATTER if I push a button it still continues. I have to sit through 1 hour of my computer "checking my drive". I shut my computer down properly and everything. I think I can fix it but I want to know WHY it does that! Does anyone know?
2007-10-10 05:17:00 · 5 answers · asked by sheensza 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
P.S. The thing is my computer is REALLY REALLY fast!!!!!!!!! Its really weird!
2007-10-10 05:29:27 · update #1
Briefly your disk is probably dying. Backup all your valuable data before it is lost.
If you have access to a spare disk and some imaging s/w eg Ghost, try to get a clone asap.
It probably takes an hour because it is retrying many times to read data, you may see it waiting on some addresses much longer than others. Any disk diag s/w will confirm disk status, but get your data safe before trying anything.
2007-10-10 05:32:31 · answer #1 · answered by terryrow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
terryrow is right about backing-up everything valuable right now! Your Hard Drive has 'bad sectors', and is on it's way to complete failure. You can try a 'low-level' format and re-install your Operating System, but this will probably only buy you a few months max. Get ready to buy a new HD. Hard Drives are hardly considered 'expensive' these days, just takes some technological knowledge to install and set-up, and transfer files/folders from old HD.
2007-10-10 06:30:31 · answer #2 · answered by highendsystems 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One reason is there may really be some problem on your hard disk which is causing the scan. Even a bad hdd cable may cause this. Try changing the cable if it is an old one. Did the checks turn out okay?
Have you scheduled the disk check or something; sometimes it does not turn itself off.
Check possible solution here: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/index.cfm?action=showthread&threadid=231103&forumid=1
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2016-10-21 22:10:36 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 hour??!!! ur computer must be very obsolete
2007-10-10 05:23:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋